Monday, October 22, 2012

ON ROHIT SHARMA

Dear Rohit Sharma,


While there is no doubting your prodigious talent and inherent ability to pierce the field like a knife through butter at will, what worries me and all other Indian cricket fans is your pronounced inability to grab the more than ample opportunities that have come your way thus far thereby failing to cement your place within the team India's echelons.....

You may be well aware of the fact that almost 85% of all Indian cricketers who have made their debuts till date have only represented the country in 10 games or less in all the formats currently in vogue and that you are indeed blessed to have been accorded the opportunities you have when hundreds of equally if not more talented cricketers are willing to grab this rare opportunity with both hands whenever it comes their way...

An amenable captain, benificient team management and pliable selectors may have contributed in no small measure towards your rather charmed existence within the team India ranks, but there will sooner rather than later come a day when the above mentioned friends and benefactors will tire of your recalitrance and profligacy and give you a resounding kick where it hurts both your pride and ego the most.....

Dear Sir, you are almost if not quite more than 25 years of age and are faced with serious competition from your contemporaries like Manoj Tiwary, Suresh Raina, Manish Pandey, and others, but are also soon going to be besieged by the claims made for inclusion in the Indian team by your juniors like Unmukt Chand and Baba Aparajith to name just a couple......

It is indeed high time that you took a dispassionate look at yourself, made a honest assessment of your perceived strengths and weaknesses and more importantly did a thorough appraisal of where you intend seeing yourself five years from now as only thorough honesty with self and a more than critical inward sight into your inner self will further your career in the annals of Indian cricket.....

Take some time off from the game go back to your roots, ask your first coach to have an intense look at your overall game and mental make up, gain invaluable insights into the same and come back mentally and physically replenished, rejuvenated and thirsting for more, let your bat do the talking this time around and force the selectors hand into making you an integral part of the 'new' Indian middle order.......

You really are a prodigious talent and your failure to do justice to your prodigious natural ability would leave me and hundreds of other Indian cricket fans heart broken....

Here's wishing you the very best in all your future endeavours in team India colours....

Your friend,fan and well wisher,

Sundeep Chopra.

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